17 examples of sleuth-hound in sentences

But Tacitus pursues his victim with the patience of a sleuth-hound; he seems to find a ruthless satisfaction in stripping the soul of its coverings; he treads the floor of hell and watches with equanimity the writhings of the damned.

So the Spy-Burglar had come, and, carefully shepherded by Dawson's sleuth-hounds, had found the primrose path easy for his crime.

One can readily pardon the lapses of an honest man, terrified at finding himself in the coils of the police, clinging to the good name of his wife and her family, clutching at any device to throw the sleuth-hounds of the law off the real scent.

THE SLEUTH-HOUND 20.

19 THE SLEUTH-HOUND For the Doctor Watsons of this world, as opposed to the Sherlock Holmeses, success in the province of detective work must be, to a very large extent, the result of luck.

Regardless of the heat, the sleuth-hound hurried across to Outwood's as fast as he could walk.

Hello!" He stared after the sleuth-hound, who had just entered the house.

The sleuth-hound stood still for a moment, baffled.

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Little Willie has been dismissed from his position as Opium Sleuth-hound.

The sleuth-hound touch.

But Du Lhut was on his feet again in a moment, and running up and down like a sleuth-hound, noting a hundred things which even Amos would have overlooked.

Five minutes after calling upon a friend in the fifth floor flat of an old mansion at the end of a courtyard in the Rue de Rivoli, there was a sharp tap at his door, and two men in civil clothes came into the room, with that sleuth-hound look which belongs to stage, and French, detectives.

A sleuth-hound to track the deer by his blood, When wounded he wins to the darkest wood, There, if he can, to die alone?

The sleuth-hound instinct of one Frederick is indicated.

Rosie, who is a reader of books, afterwards said that no sleuth-hounds could have done the thing better.

"But, Mademoiselle," I stammered; for indeed her words and appearance had roused all my worst fears, but also all my instincts of the sleuth-hound scenting his quarry.

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